The virtual simulator, consisting of a display (right) and a haptic device (left).

Mean number of authors per publication in JBJS-A and JBJS-B original articles.

Mean number of publications during residency by subjects who selected an academic career (full academic plus semi-academic) and by those who selected a nonacademic (private) career.

This sample DIT dilemma presents a moral dilemma about the protagonist, Heinz, and whether or not he should steal a lifesaving but unaffordable drug from a local pharmacist to save his dying wife. The dilemma is presented in the same SurveyMonkey format that our residents viewed when they took the DIT-2. (Reproduced, with permission from, the Office for the Study of Ethical Development, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.)

Program director responses regarding resident access to existing surgical skills laboratories.

Virtual-Fracture-Carving Simulator stylus and software interface. On the left screen, the participant is carving on an intact-hemipelvis template with the carving tool, which carves both cortices simultaneously like a “jigsaw.” The right screen displays a 3D CT reconstruction of the associated both-column acetabular fracture.

The fellows with Dr. Miclau before boarding the super van in San Francisco.

Mean quiz scores according to resident year in training. Scores for the two training subgroups were combined. PGY = postgraduate year in training. The error bars indicate the standard deviation.

Graph showing the percentage of residents and faculty who agree or disagree with the statement “Fellowship training in orthopaedic programs is an important educational issue for residents.”

Number of passing grades according to class.